-----+-------+-----+------------------------+--------------------------- Year.| Mo. | D. | | Observations. -----+-------+-----+------------------------+--------------------------- | | | | 1652 |June[a]| 19 |Fight in Downes between |Genˡ Blake comanded. Fight | | |English and Dutch. |to the wᵗward off Dover. | | | | | Sept. | 5 |French fleet beat by |Genˡ Blake comanded. | | |English | | | | | | Nov. |15[b]|Blake worsted by Dutch. |True; and retired to the | | | |Buoy of the Nore over the | | | |Flats. | | | | | Feb. | 18, |Fight near Portland. |True. Blake, Deane, and | | 19, |Dutch beaten. |Monck. Genˡ Blake and | | 20 | |Deane in the Tryumph; | | | |Monk in the Vanguard. | | | |Blake wounded. | | | | | | |English worsted in |True. Capᵗ Rᵈ Balilo | | |Levant by Dutch. |commanded. | | | | | June |--[c]|Dutch beaten. |Deane and Monk Genˡˢ. | | | |Deane killed. | | | | ’53 | July | 29, |Fight between English |True. Dutch beaten. Genˡ | | 30 |and Dutch.[d] |Monk only comanded. Trump | | | |killed, and his flag shot | | | |down. | | | | ’64 | Dec. | 30 |Fleet off Portsmouth |True. Brought into Portsmᵒ | | [e] |took 112 Dutch prizes. |and afterwards made prizes. | | | | ’65 | Aprˡ | 20 |De Ruyter attempted |True. | | |Berbadoes; and beaten. | | | | | | May | 30 |Hamburgh fleet taken by |True. Were taken with their | | |Dutch. |convoy. | | | | | June | 3 |Dutch beaten by yᵉ |True. Opdam then blown up; | | |Duke, and 30 capitˡ |the rest taken and burnt. | | |ships taken and | | | |destroyed. | | | | | | Aug. | 16 |Dutch Smerna Streights |True; and was forced away by | | |East India ships |the Danes and Dutch, who | | |attacqu’d by Rʳ Admˡ |landed ther guns contrary